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Questions related to improving application performance, this can be range from selection software architecture to selection of algorithms.

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Is a 1 < 10 comparison less expensive than 1 < 1000000?

Is there a difference in performance on the ALU level in comparisons between very large numbers vs very small ones? For example, would one of these two snippets be more expensive than the other? …
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